Whip.



PATENTED MAR. 3, 1908.

W. E. WRIGHT.

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UNITED STATES PNUE.

WHIP

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led August 8, 1906.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VALTER E. VVRiGi-IT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Saltsburg, in the county of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vhips, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in whips, and the invention has for its primary object to provide a magazine whip for tips or crackers.

Another object of this invention is to provide a whip in the stock of which a plurality of tips can be conveniently housed, whereby when a tip has been lost or has become worn, another tip can be placed upon the whip, to prevent the whip from being worn or injured.

A further object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive whip particularly designed as a buggy whip and in connection with the stock thereof I employ novel means for cushioning the whip within a socket or whip casing.

lith the above and other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and referring to the drawing forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which 1 Figue l is a perspective view of my improved whip, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the stock or handle thereof, Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross sectional view taken on the line -x of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a similar view taken on the line y-y of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a portion of the whip stock or handle.

To put my invention into practice, I construct my improved whip of material similar to an ordinary whip, the body of the whip consisting of a piece of raw hide 1, surrounded by wood or fiber 2, which is incased in an .interwoven fabric 3 that is suitably varnished and rendered water proof.

. In the stock or handle of the whip and surrounded by the wood or fiber 2, is a tapering metallic tube 4, the smaller end of which embraces the end ofthe raw hide l, while Patented March 3, 1908.

Serial No. 329,753.

the large end of the tube protrud'es beyond the wood 2, and the varnished fabric 3 and is screw threaded as at 5. The tube 4 forms a compartment or magazine for tips or crackers 6 which can be conveniently arranged within the tube 4.

Detachably mounted upon the screw threaded end 5 of the tube 4 is a cap 7 which is provided with a rubber or resilient button or cushion 8 to cushion the whip when it is dropped into a whip socket or casing. The sides of the cap 7 are covered with a woven varnished fabric 9 adapted to lie Hush with the sides of the stock of the whip, whereby the juncture of the cap 7 with the stock of the whip will hardly be perceptible.

It is a well known fact that the constant use of whip causes the top or cracker thereof to become worn, and at times the tip is lost by being improperly connected to the whip. When a whip without a tip is used, the whip becomes worn, disfigured and it is impossible to again replace a tip upon the whip after the unprotected end thereof has been injured. My invention aims in providing the magazine and the stock of the whip to at all times have a tip or cracker accessible, whereby immediately upon a tip being rendered useless or lost, another tip can be immediately placed upon the end of the whip.

The tube which constitutes the principal element of my invention, besides serving as a magazine serves functionally as an anchor for the rawhide core or strip of a whip, also to strengthen the stock of the whip and add suflicient heft thereto which permits of a whip being easily handled.

It is apparent from the foregoing that the cap can be easily and quickly removed and a tip or cracker withdrawn from the tube 4, after which the cap can be easily replaced.

I do not care to confine myself to the type of whip in connection with which my improved tip magazine is used, and such changes in the details of construction, as are permissible by the appended claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a whip comprising a tapering sleeve having the lower end thereof formed .with exterior threads, a whip member extending in the upper end of and projecting partly through said sleeve, said sleeve constituting an anchor for the whip member and that portion of the interior of the sleeve below the inner end of the whip member forming a chamber for the I -reeeption of whip crackers, means for inelosing a portion of the whip member above the upper end of the sleeve and furthermore inelosing a portion of the sleeve, said means terminating in 'proximity to the screwthreaded end of the sleeve, a cap mounted l0 upon the lower end of the sleeve and engaging with said threads, said cap having a depending resilient extension, and a covering nolosing said Cap and said means.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WALTER E. WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

L. R. MOORE, TI-IoMAs D. STEWART. 

